Courses Taught (Fall 2017)

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11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon

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11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon

Biography:

Bruno Thibault is the Edward Rosenberg and Elizabeth Goodman Professor of French Literature at the University of Delaware. He has earned doctorates in French literature and civilization from both sides of the Atlantic: one from the University of Paris and the other from the University of Maryland. A specialist in 20th century and contemporary French literature, civilization and film, he has taught at the University of Delaware since 1987.

Bruno Thibault has served as associate editor for Nouvelles Études Francophones from 2005 to 2009. He has served as editor-in-chief for Les Cahiers Le Clézio from 2009 to 2016. He is a member of the editorial committee of the Collection monographique en littérature française contemporaine for Rodopi. Bruno Thibault is currently serving as director of the Chiasma collection, a series on modern and contemporary French and francophone literature, and film, published by Brill.

Un Jésus postmoderne offers a thorough discussion of some forty contemporary French novels depicting the life of Jesus within the framework of today’s debate on fundamentalism and secularism. Focusing on the interplay of narrative viewpoints and (anti)theological perspectives, this study scrutinizes the postmodern representation of Jesus for readers who belong to a time marked by incredulity towards meta-narratives. Drawing on Marcel Gauchet and Julia Kristeva, as well as René Girard’s ‘scapegoat theory’, among many others, this study examines Jesus as a ‘problematic hero’ and a ‘conceptual character’ on the threshold of the new millennium. It shows how these novels reflect recent advances in biblical exegesis, religious anthropology, psychoanalysis and theology.

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